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Mole is a code word for the double agent who has burrowed his way into the heart of the British secret service. As Tinker, Tailor opens, the head of intelligence, known only as Control (Alexander Knox), determines that one of his subordinates has an open line to Moscow. But which one? Enter the redoubtable George Smiley, brought out of retirement. The counterspy is an unlikely hero. He is middle-aged and stout, and his adulterous wife has bedded down with just about every man he knows, including Bill Haydon (Ian Richardson), one of the four candidates for Mole...
American Social Carla F. Hines Samuel R. Knox...
...annually. But competition has been getting stronger. Last year the Canadian government began selling its 1-oz. Gold Maple Leaf, and this spring the Mexicans started promoting the Centenario. Beginning this month Americans will also be able to buy 1-oz. and ½oz. medallions made from Fort Knox gold. These will be medallions-and not gold coins-and thus cannot be used at the corner drugstore. They will be sold through post offices, with the cost being set at the daily gold price plus a handling charge of about $15. The ½oz. version will bear a portrait...
DIED. Henry Knox Sherrill, 89, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S. from 1947 to 1958 and one of the nation's most vocal advocates of ecumenism; in Boxford, Mass. Born in Brooklyn, Sherrill rose from assistant minister of a Boston parish to Bishop of Massachusetts at 39 and head of the national church at 56. As the first chief of the National Council of Churches of Christ (1950-52) and one of six presidents of the World Council of Churches from 1954 to 1961, he asked, "How can we expect other nations to cooperate when...
...deaths of Allison Krause, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer and William Knox Schroder are examples of how far our government will go to prevent change. Unless we begin again to think of the world as they and others who protested the war did, their deaths will be largely meaningless. One symptom--the Vietnam war--is gone, but the disease remains as virulent...